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Old 11-04-2011, 02:00 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Really? Don't GG get points for originality in this album? I mean, take 'Knots' for example. I don't imagine any mainstream prog group ever doing a song like that, and pair it with the more accessible prog songs they do.

Personally, my biggest problem with this album is the feeling they're truncating the songs for accessibility. Really wish they'd cut loose, and sprawl a bit more. This is prog, after all, there's no death penalty for going beyond the 6 minute mark. Beyond that, I've always deemed this album as 'perfect'.
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